Each finalist will make a presentation on campus for faculty, students and staff. The first, Carlo Montemagno of the University of Cincinnati, spoke Monday. He is dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Cincinnati and was previously at UCLA, where he chaired the bioengineering department and was associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute.

The next candidate, Daniel Wubah, who is vice president and dean for undergraduate education and deputy provost at Virginia Tech, will speak Wednesday at 9 a.m. at UAB Alumni House. Wubah has also been an administrator at the University of Florida and James Madison University and a professor and chair of biological sciences at Towson University in Maryland.

UAB's current interim provost, Linda Lucas, will make her presentation April 2. Lucas received a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from UAB in 1983, then returned to become a professor and then chair of biomedical engineering. She was named dean of the engineering school in 2001.

Harold Jones, the dean of UAB's School of Health Professions, will make the last presentation April 4. Before coming to the school 11 years ago, he was dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences at East Carolina for nine years, and had previously been at the University of South Alabama.